"Escape from Treblinka"

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.485

Overview

Description: Consists of one videocassette, approximately 10 minutes, entitled "Escape from Treblinka." The video relates the Holocaust experiences of Edward Weinstein, originally of Losice, Poland. Mr. Weinstein was deported to Treblinka in August 1942 and escaped on September 9, 1942. He spent the remainder of the war in hiding in the Polish countryside until the area was liberated in July 1944. The video uses photographs and home movies of a 1993 trip to Poland, to tell Mr. Weinstein's story.
Date: 1993

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Edward Weinstein donated his videocassette to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 26, 2005.